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Title From mine to microscope : advances in the study of ancient technology / edited by Andrew J. Shortland, Ian C. Freestone and Thilo Rehren.

Publication Info. Oxford, UK : Oxbow Books, [2009]
Oakville, CT : [Distributed in the U.S. by] D. Brown Bk. Co.
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 230 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Lead frits in Islamic and Hispano-Moresque glazed productions -- The emergence of ceramic technology and its evolution as revealed with the use of scientific techniques -- Neolithic pottery from Switzerland: raw materials and manufacturing processes -- Low-tech in Amalfi: provenance and date assignation of medieval Middle-Eastern pottery by application of eyeball technique -- Some implications of the use of wood ash in Chinese stoneware glazes of the 9th-12th centuries -- The Hispano-Moresque tin glazed ceramics produced in Teruel, Spain: a technology between two historical periods, 13th to 16th c. AD -- Beads beyond number: faience from the 'Isis Tomb' at Vulci, Italy -- Egyptian blue in Greek painting between 2500 and 50 BC -- Links between glazes and glass in mid-2nd millennium BC Mesopotamia and Egypt -- The fish's tale: a foreign glassworker at Amarna? -- Ancient copper red glasses: investigation and analysis by microbeam techniques -- The provenance of archaeological plant ash glasses -- Microanalysis of glass by Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy -- New thoughts on niello -- From mine to microbe - the Neolithic copper melting crucibles from Switzerland --
Across the wine dark seas... sailor tinkers and royal cargoes in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean -- What a long, strange trip it's been: lead isotopes and archaeology -- The juice of the pomegranate: processing and quality control of alumen in antiquity, and making sense of Pliny's Phorimon and Paraphoron -- Finding the Floorstone -- 'Sweet waste': The industrial waste from the medieval sugar refinery at the Tawahin es-Sukkar in Jordan.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Technology -- History -- To 1500.
Technology.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Industrial arts -- History -- To 1500.
Industrial arts.
Industries, Prehistoric.
Industries, Prehistoric.
Tools, Prehistoric.
Tools, Prehistoric.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Shortland, Andrew J., editor.
Freestone, Ian, editor.
Rehren, Thilo, editor.
Other Form: Print version: From mine to microscope 9781842172599 (DLC) 2009288715 (OCoLC)154657019
ISBN 9781782972778 (electronic book)
1782972773 (electronic book)
9781842172599
184217259X
9781782972785
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